Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar, pseudonyme de Marguerite Cleenewerck de Crayencour, née le 8 juin 1903 à Bruxelles et morte le 17 décembre 1987 à Bar Harbor dans l'État du Maine (États-Unis), est une femme de lettres française (naturalisée américaine en 1947). Romancière, nouvelliste et autobiographe, elle est aussi poétesse, traductrice, essayiste et critique littéraire. Elle est la première femme élue membre de l'Académie française en 1980.

Des romans historiques aux mémoires autobiographiques, l'œuvre de Yourcenar se caractérise d'abord par l'élaboration esthétique de sa langue, au style épuré et classique, et par le privilège donné à la narration. Inspirée à la fois par la sagesse orientale et la philosophie gréco-latine, la pensée de l'écrivaine se reconnaît notamment dans l'humanisme de la Renaissance entendu comme curiosité universelle nourrie par la lecture des livres anciens.

French novelist and essayist (1903-1987)

Born	1903-06-08
Died	1987-12-17

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Memoirs of Hadrian: and reflections on the composition of Memoirs of Hadrian

by Marguerite Yourcenar First published in 1951 — 129 editions
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L'ouvre au noir

by Marguerite Yourcenar First published in 1968 — 54 editions
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Alexis, or, The treatise of vain struggle

by Marguerite Yourcenar First published in 1929 — 33 editions

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Coup de grace

by Marguerite Yourcenar First published in 1939 — 22 editions

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Alexis: ou, Le traité du vain combat suivi de Le coup de grâce

by Marguerite Yourcenar First published in 1971 — 12 editions

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A Coin in Nine Hands

by Marguerite Yourcenar First published in 1959 — 10 editions

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Fires

by Marguerite Yourcenar First published in 1973 — 9 editions

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Mishima: a vision of the void

by Marguerite Yourcenar First published in 1980 — 9 editions
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Vostochnye novelly

by Marguerite Yourcenar First published in 1938 — 9 editions

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That mighty sculptor, time

by Marguerite Yourcenar First published in 1984 — 8 editions

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Sous bénéfice d'inventaire

by Marguerite Yourcenar First published in 1962 — 7 editions

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Two lives and a dream

by Marguerite Yourcenar First published in 1982 — 7 editions

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Anna, soror--

by Marguerite Yourcenar First published in 1981 — 6 editions
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Oriental tales

by Marguerite Yourcenar First published in 1963 — 5 editions

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Souvenirs pieux

by Marguerite Yourcenar First published in 1974 — 5 editions

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Fires

by Marguerite Yourcenar First published in 1957 — 4 editions

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Die schwarze Flamme: Roman

by Marguerite Yourcenar First published in 1985 — 4 editions
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Archives du Nord

by Marguerite Yourcenar First published in 1977 — 4 editions
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Memòries d'Adrià

by Marguerite Yourcenar and Jaume Creus First published in 1990 — 3 editions

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Denier du rêve

by Marguerite Yourcenar First published in 1959 — 3 editions

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